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If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

Lynda Barry

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Lynda Barry
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 2
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
University Teacher
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In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke.
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Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed.
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You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
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These are very confusing times. For the first time in history a woman is expected to combine: intelligence with a sharp hairdo, a raised consciousness with high heels, and an open, nonsexist relationship with a tan guy who has a great bod.
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
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There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.
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If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.
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Love will make a way out of no way
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I remember my comic strips being called new wave. It bugged me.
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Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say No! I don't want it right now, that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
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No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.
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This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
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but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
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The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
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Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.
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I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
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